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6.S185: Advanced Analog Circuits and Control IAP 2017 Information and Schedule (Draft)

This document provides information about the 6.S185: Advanced Analog Circuits and Control course offered at MIT during IAP 2017, including the course description, schedule, prerequisites, assignments, and recommended texts. The course will cover advanced analog circuit design and analysis techniques over 11 lectures during January and February, with topics including feedback modeling, noise modeling, linear and switching regulator design, and discrete-time control. Students will complete 3 problem sets, 3 lab projects, and a final research paper and presentation. The goal is to cover a semester's worth of material in the short January term.

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6.S185: Advanced Analog Circuits and Control IAP 2017 Information and Schedule (Draft)

This document provides information about the 6.S185: Advanced Analog Circuits and Control course offered at MIT during IAP 2017, including the course description, schedule, prerequisites, assignments, and recommended texts. The course will cover advanced analog circuit design and analysis techniques over 11 lectures during January and February, with topics including feedback modeling, noise modeling, linear and switching regulator design, and discrete-time control. Students will complete 3 problem sets, 3 lab projects, and a final research paper and presentation. The goal is to cover a semester's worth of material in the short January term.

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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

6.S185: Advanced Analog Circuits and Control


IAP 2017 Information and Schedule (Draft)

Prerequisites: 6.301 or 6.101, 6.302 or 2.14, or permission of instructor


Instructor: Daniel Kramnik (M.Eng. student, Physical Optics and Electronics Group)
Lecture Times: 2:00pm - 3:30pm on Jan. 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 30, and Feb. 1, 2, 3
Lecture Location: 37-212
Contact: tel: 617-970-1954, email: [email protected]
Office Hours: times TBD, location: 38-501 lab

Course Description
Covers principles of analog circuit design using control-based modeling and analysis techniques.
Material is inspired by advanced circuits courses that are no longer taught (eg. 6.331, 6.376). Top-
ics include: feedback in small-signal models, driving point impedances and return ratio analysis,
application-specific opamp compensation, linear network theory and directed graphs, thermody-
namics and modeling of noise, detailed performance analysis of linear and switching regulators,
and discrete-time modeling and control. Students participate in 3 laboratory projects that include
power amplifier design, operational amplifier and transconductance amplifier design, and filter syn-
thesis. Topics and labs may change depending on student feedback and interest. Background in
both analog circuit design and classical control is a prerequisite. Some prior exposure to power
electronics (6.131 or 6.334) is also useful. Laboratory experience is assumed. To participate, submit
solutions to the pretest posted on the course page by the first lecture.

Coursework
In order to cover about a semester’s worth of material in a month, we need to move fast. The
expectation is that this course will be your primary occupaction during IAP. There will be 3 problem
sets, 3 lab projects (each about as long as 6.301 lab 2), and a final paper and presentation on a
research or design topic of your choice. Collaborative work on labs and problem sets is encouraged
to make them move faster and form a 6.S185 community in the short time we have together. We
expect many people to be in lab discussing the problem sets and labs during weekdays. A passing
grade will be assigned if you complete all of the assignments by the end of IAP.

Recommended Texts
• Rahul Sarpeshkar. Ultra Low-Power Bioelectronics. Cambridge University Press, 2011
• Marc Thompson. Intuitive Analog Circuit Design. Newnes, 2013
• Luca Corradini, Dragan Maksimovic, Paolo Mattavelli, and Regan Zane. Digital Control of
High-Frequency Switched-Mode Power Converters. Wiley-IEEE Press, 2015

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6.S185 Information and Schedule

Course Outline

Week Lecture Content


• Introduction and Review
• Review of circuits and feedback (6.301 and 6.302)
1 1 • Some fun new devices and history (JFETs and vacuum tubes)
• Harmonic distortion and mitigation
• Feedback linearization, feedforward cancellation, and super linear circuit
• Assigned: Problem Set 1, Lab 1 (Headphone Power Amplifier)
• Circuit Modeling with Feedback
1 2 • 2-port circuit models, series and shunt feedback connections
• Feedback modeling of arbitrary circuits in small-signal
• Feedback biasing and DC-coupled amplifiers
• Circuit Modeling with Directed Graphs
• Driving point impedance
1 3 • Fundamentals of linear networks and their digraph representations
• Mason’s gain formula, inverse and adjoint circuits
• Due: Problem Set 1
• Advanced Feedback Techniques
• Return ratio analysis
2 4 • Blackman’s impedance formula and Middlebrook’s extra element theorem
• Due: Lab 1 Report
• Assigned: Problem Set 2, Lab 2 (Homemade Opamp)
• Application-Specific Opamp Compensation
2 5 • Lead, lag, gain reduction, minor loops, and more!
• Tricks for driving capacitive loads
• Transconductance Amplifiers
• Low-power circuits using subthreshold conduction in MOSFETs
2 6 • Ordinary transconditance amplifiers (OTAs)
• Gm-C filters and filter synthesis
• Due: Problem Set 2
• Introduction to Noise
• Fundamental vs. non-fundamental sources of noise
• Johnson noise and shot noise: two sides of the same coin
3 7 • Equipartition theorem and kT /C noise
• Input-referred noise, noise in opamp circuits
• Due: Lab 2
• Assigned: Problem Set 3, Lab 3 (Subthreshold Gm − C Filter)
• Linear vs. Switching Regulators
• Detailed noise and stability analysis of LM317 linear regulator
3 8 • Introduction to buck and boost switching regulators
• Switch loss mechanisms
• Assigned: Final Paper and Presentation

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Week Lecture Content


• Discrete Time Control
• How to think about and do control in discrete time
3 9 • Zero-order hold equivalent models
• Filter implementations
• Practical implementation issues in embedded systems
• Due: Problem Set 3
• Modeling and Control of Switching Regulators I
• Approximate continuous time modeling using periodic averaging
4 10 • Current mode control
• Closed-loop input and output impedance, stability issues
• Introduction to exact discrete time modeling
• Due: Lab 3
• Modeling and Control of Switching Regulators II
• PWM types and models
4 11 • Impulse-invariant discretization
• Compensation in discrete time and state-space control
• PWM resolution issues and Σ∆ enhancement
• Power integrity and reverse pulse technique
• Fun Lecture: How to Build a Tesla coil Using Power Electronics
and Feedback
4 12 • Resonators, coupled oscillators, and wireless power transfer
• Soft-switched and resonant power converters
• A feedback perspective on Tesla coil control with describing functions
• Demo (?)

4 13 • Final Presentations
• Due: Final Paper

Acknowledgements
Thanks to Iva Božović from the University of Southern California for her LATEX syllabus template.

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